Author: Freedom Watch
Both Violated Their Oath of Office and Ethics Rules in Obamacare Decision (Washington, D.C., June 28, 2012). Today, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan have violated their oath of office to uphold the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. Roberts’ majority opinion upholding Obamacare was not only legally wrong, but the chief justice’s failure to disqualify Justice Elena Kagan from sitting and ruling on the case — given her textbook conflict of interest in participating in the crafting of the legislation while she was Obama’s Solicitor General of the U.S. Justice Department — shows a clear-cut violation…
Washington’s Political Leaders Are Living Up To Donald Trump’s Famous Quote: “Not Telling Saudi Arabia To Stop Raising (bleep) Oil Prices,” said Freedom Watch Founder Larry Klayman WASHINGTON, DC., May 7, 2012 — The public interest group Freedom Watch today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (“OPEC”) with illegal price fixing and market division by artificially inflating crude oil prices. The 12 countries that constitute OPEC specifically and intentionally limit barrels of oil that each country produces, which has caused price to reach nearly $120 a barrel,…
Freedom Watch refuses to back down on request to disqualify Justice Kagan (February 27, 2012, Washington, D.C.). Today, Freedom Watch, and its founder, Larry Klayman, who also founded Judicial Watch, were once again denied permission to appear at oral argument in the case of Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services, which will decide on the constitutionality of Obamacare. Freedom Watch had filed an amicus brief seeking the recusal and/or disqualification of Justice Elena Kagan. See www.freedomwatchusa.org. Klayman sought to appear at oral argument to emphasize the need for the Court to respect the rules of judicial ethics and…
A State’s Power to Protect Its Residents is Unquestionable (February 13, 2012, Washington, D.C.). Freedom Watch, and its founder, Larry Klayman, announce the filing of their amicus brief in support of the state of Arizona in the case of Arizona v. United States, which will decide on the constitutionality of Arizona’s controversial SB1070 legislation (the Act). Arizona’s passage of the Act sought to enforce federal immigration laws by enabling state officers, inter alia, to verify the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally. The Obama Justice Department, which has miserably failed in securing the borders of…
Supreme Court Denies Freedom Watch Request to Speak at Oral Argument (January 23, 2012). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Freedom Watch and before that Judicial Watch, and a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2004 in Florida, issued the following statement with regard to the Supreme Court’s ruling that he could not participate in oral argument in the Obamacare case: “The Supreme Court’s ruling today did not ‘rule’ on the requested recusal or disqualification of Justice Elena Kagan. Freedom Watch’s amicus curiae brief remains squarely in front of the court. Instead the Supreme Court denied my request to…
CHALLENGES CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS WHO CLAIMS THAT JUSTICES DO NOT HAVE TO ADHERE TO JUDICIAL ETHICS AND THE RULE OF LAW (January 6, 2012, Washington, D.C.). Freedom Watch and its founder, Larry Klayman, who also founded Judicial Watch, announced the filing of their amicus brief on behalf of the American people in the case of Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services, which will decide on the constitutionality of Obamacare (“the Act”). The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Act, in what is likely one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in recent…
(December 9, 2011, Washington, D.C.). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Freedom Watch and before that Judicial Watch, announced that Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the entry of default against defendants, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayaltollah Sayid Ali Hoseyni Khamenei, the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a class action lawsuit brought by victims of the regime. Klayman is the attorney who filed the case. The lead plaintiffs, Akbar and Manoucher Mohammadi, brothers, were the first to call for regime change during the early…
September 9, 2011 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg City Hall New York, NY 10007 Re: Demand to Allow Clergy to Speak at September 11, 2011 Memorial Ceremony Dear Mayor Bloomberg: You have banned Christian and Jewish clergy from speaking and participating in prayer at the September 11, 2011 Memorial Ceremony on the tenth anniversary of this tragic event. Importantly, this occurred only after you invited Imam Feisal Rauf of the Ground Zero Mosque, which you support, to speak at the event. Your invitation caused a huge controversy and you had to withdraw it. Your actions in excluding Christian and Jewish clergy,…
Contact: Larry Klayman, 310-595-0800, leklayman@<NOSPAM>yahoo.com WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2011 /Standard Newswire/ — Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, today announced that the U.S. District Court for District of Columbia (Honorable Richard Roberts), ruled that a he and others at Freedom Watch may, in principle, gain access to secret White House meetings with lobbyists in the healthcare and related industries over the President’s so called Obamacare legislation, and learn whether there has been a change in the “composition” of the group of persons and entities the President and his advisers had been meeting with. Previously, in the…